Joseph Donato

Joseph Donato is a Queer writer, editor, and library worker. He is a Part-Time Events Associate at the Pickering Public Library where he facilitates adult programming, including several writing and publishing initiatives. He hosts the annual Creative Writing Series at the Pickering Public Library, which has generated four Writers’ Anthologies (and counting!). Joseph is a published author with two poetry chapbooks, Toothache (2023) and No One Should Be Happy When I’m Not (2026). He earned a Creative Writing MFA at the University of Guelph and is the Editor-in-Chief of Block Party and Overlord of Horror Pop Mag , as well as Associate Poetry Editor of Utopia Publishing . His poems and horror stories have appeared in The Ampersand Review, Pinhole Magazine, and more. Joseph enjoys dad rock, money, and being afraid. Powered by Froala Editor